Sunday, February 26, 2012

Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest inreducing the role of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the proliferation of weapons of massdestruction (WMD) and missiles that could deliver them. Recipients of China’s technologyreportedly include Pakistan and countries said by the State Department to have supportedterrorism, such as Iran. This CRS Report, updated as warranted, discusses the security problem ofChina’s role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the U.S. policy response since the mid-1990s. China has taken some steps to mollify U.S. and other foreign concerns about its role inweapons proliferation. Nonetheless, supplies from China have aggravated trends that result inambiguous technical aid, more indigenous capabilities, longer-range missiles, and secondary(retransferred) proliferation. According to unclassified intelligence reports submitted as requiredto Congress, China has been a “key supplier” of technology, particularly PRC entities providingnuclear and missile-related technology to Pakistan and missile-related technology to Iran.http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL31555.pdf

Simon Reid-HenrySpaces of security and development: An alternative mapping of the security–development nexus, 97-104.

Maria Stern and Joakim ÖjendalMapping security–development: A question of methodology?105-110

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 22(1), 2011

A transformed insurgency: The strategy of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in the light of communist insurgency theories and a modified Beaufrean exterior/interior framework Mika Kerttunen, 78-118